I’m new to the Newsmag theme and getting really frustrated because the documentation is not very helpful. I somehow messed up the template of my front page so that posts are displayed in a single column. I want the posts to be displayed like the default Newsmag front page theme. I’m playing around in “Blog posts and template” under Layout settings which sets the template for index.php but I don’t see the default Newsmag layout listed.
Help please?
Also, in the original Newsmag theme, I was trying to get rid of the divs that say stuff like “Fashion Week”, “Gadget World”, etc. What do I need to do to edit those elements?
Thanks.
Just to clarify, I uninstalled and reinstalled the default News demo a number of times. If I do install the pre-loaded content, I get the default News look I want for my front page, but when I delete the content, the format of the template breaks and I just get blog posts stacked on top of each other. I did not have this problem yesterday, and I’m not sure why the page layout keeps breaking.
TIP:
you can create multiple “pages” to test layouts, then choose the one to actually make live as static home page. Just make each test page a draft and not published.
This was how I learned to suffer through the learning curve of VC 4 years ago.
In my case, I switched to the beta TD Composer, which is simpler and had all the modules I actually use.
If you import a “demo” then you can edit the different modules in VC from the page holding those elements. Little bit of trial and error to sort of the menu for each element in the grid, but it can be done.
